Only This Nation Can Completely Ignore Aggressive Expansion

In this video I'll show how to abuse appanage mechanics to completely ignore aggressive expansion in Europa Universalis 4.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Opening moves
02:25 Conquering Armagnac
03:15 Conquering Auvergne
03:54 Conquering Bourbonnais
06:24 "Independence" War
12:01 Protecting Florence
13:42 "Independence" War Part 2
16:05 Trying to Survive
19:46 "Independence" War Part 3
20:53 Independence War

[@Americanizzle]

This reminds me of conquering the world as a daimyo in EU3. Your infamy (basically that game's version of AE) would go to the shogun, so you could just ignore that mechanic, only really limited by overextension.

[@Burno01]

So basically a symbiotic relationship between the player and the AI nice

[@izab3ru]

Love the militant order reform but I hate that you need a cardinal in Orleans. Or more specifically that if you have 7 cardinals and conquer another you can just RNG lose your Orleans one.

[@izab3ru]

If you do get it to stick, though the modifier that makes all rulers and advisors female stays if you swap government reforms. Matriarch revolutionary was pretty funny

[@freelancerm]

15:55 Whaaaaaaaaat this is your best general by a mile 5 shock in 1498 is awesome

[@Einweisel]

Love your videos Bonobo!

[@followingfire76]

I actually figured this out by accident when playing orleans!

[@niedrigesc5598]

Can you potentially conquer the whole of Europe with this method ?

[@CoolBonobo]

Theoretically yes, just need to make sure coalition won't be too big while you're waging independence war. So you either need to conquer a lot of nations by chaining cobelligerents, or by having long periods of peace in between.

[@erwannthietart3602]

Helping France expand would be a way too wouldnt it ?​@@CoolBonobo

[@andreafardo7370]

Declaring indipendence war only to conquer the allies of France

[@GwainSagaFanChannel]

This guide would be super helpfull if you play Orleans to get the achievement

[@SugarRushBob]

Bamboozle the AI, love it!

[@IAmMrGreat]

Can't really ignore AE as you still need to keep it low for when you're in independence war and when/if you gain independence. Any AE you get also makes it harder to get other nations to support your independence. Really, the only benefit you get is that they won't coalition war you while you're at peace and I guess if you can end wars fast they might not have time to coalition war you during your own wars either, but then you're always forced to do fort assaults or invest HEAVILY into siege ability. It just doesn't seem like much of a benefit to me, any other nation could get the same amount of territory by sticking to claims and making sure not to take too much land at once, while being free to find allies and declare war when and wherever they want.

[@freedomgoddess]

orleans kicked france's ass and then burgundy's/netherland's. guess i was right, this game is really funny with the appanage feature!

[@alehanedilko2147]

Holly God, believe me or not. I was just struggling for a week trying to make order of Joan D'Ark. KZbin algorithm has cooked fr

[@Vaflentinus]

Фишка прикольная, но смысл понять к сожалению не могу, за Орлеан нет ачивментов чтобы так изворачиваться, агрессивное расширение ты меняешь на то что не можешь полноценно расширяться и объявлять войну только Франции и то, ради чего? чтобы получить все земли Франции за её вассала(немного другое название уж извините) ? тогда проще взять или Бургундию или саму Францию и то будет меньше агресивного расширения, ненужные телодвижения ради чего? зачем? Без негатива, как фишка прикольно.

[@CoolBonobo]

А почему бы и нет? С позиции минмаксинга такое, но это единственный адекватный способ захватить всю Францию не изворачиваясь с вассалами. Сам же признался фишка прикольная ), для разнообразия самое то

[@ImperatorAugustus]

Is it possible to learn this power?

[@CoolBonobo]

Not from HRE